Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

For today’s marketing teams, it’s nearly impossible to do your work and stay agile without marketing automation. In fact, teams that don’t adopt automation and AI-powered software throughout their tech stack risk falling behind. At its core, automation cuts out redundant, time-consuming tasks so your team can focus on strategy.

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SmartBug Media

MARCH 17, 2021

Running a successful business takes much more than just a repeat of one-time purchases. The Marketo customer lifecycle is defined by six core stages, represented in a Venn diagram that concentrates at a common point at the base, allowing for complete customer flexibility and movement within the customer lifecycle.

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Valasys

APRIL 15, 2024

Drip marketing campaigns, also known as automated email sequences, offer a systematic way to communicate with your audience. This blog post will delve into drip marketing campaigns, their importance, how to craft personalized messages, and selecting the right email automation tools.

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The Point

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Almost 5 years ago, our agency conducted a survey to determine whether B2B companies were getting maximum value from their investment in marketing automation. You’d assume, therefore, that marketing automation maturity – the level of sophistication at which companies employ the technology – has improved.

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SmartBug Media

APRIL 17, 2020

For newbies, Marketo proves its value right off the bat as an excellent email automation tool. Marketo allows you to manage truly multi-channel marketing experiences across social, web, and digital ads—and sales empowerment tools help your reps build consistent email journeys throughout the customer lifecycle. Sales Insights.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 10, 2014

Marketo wrapped up its three day Marketing Nation conference yesterday, having once more displayed its own marketing prowess by attracting national media attention (see here and here ) with an appearance by Hillary Clinton. This borders on integration of Web display with marketing automation, an extremely important trend.

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Only B2B

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This is where Automated Lead Qualification steps in as a game-changer. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the intricacies of Automated Lead Qualification, demystifying its key components, benefits, and challenges. What is Automated Lead Qualification? But what exactly does it entail, and why is it crucial? The result?

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Heinz Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Today’s post is about Marketing Automation. Marketing automation platforms are a foundational element of the martech stack. Marketing automation is all about using software to automate activities which allows your teams more time to focus on strategy and the leads showing real promise. Marketing Automation Platforms.

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SmartBug Media

OCTOBER 29, 2020

According to Marketo , marketing attribution is the process of determining which interactions influence a customer to purchase from your brand. Whether you measure success in FT or MT attribution, setting yourself up for success in Marketo is a necessity. Attribution Reporting in Marketo. Setting Yourself Up for Success.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Marketing automation platforms often play a central role in marketing technology stacks, especially given the importance of email as a marketing channel. But since these systems often come with hefty price tags, it’s important to cover all of your bases when navigating the purchase or upgrade process. Click here to download!

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Engagio

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Campaign Management software automated the process of sending out campaigns — primarily direct mail at that time and then email. A few years later, a couple of ex-e.pihanites, our very own Jon Miller along with Phil Fernandez, started Marketo to focus solely on B2B marketing and created what has now become the Marketing Automation space.

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Zoominfo

JULY 2, 2020

While marketing professionals understand marketing automation can streamline essential processes, many do not leverage these systems to their full advantage. Marketing automation is beneficial. What is Marketing Automation, And Why is it Important? How Does Marketing Automation Work? The ultimate goal? Closing more sales.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Marketing automation platforms are often at the center of the marketing organization, but with capabilities that go beyond your average email platform often come steeper prices and a sharper learning curve. Marketing automation is often a solution for companies that are growing rapidly and need to scale their efforts.

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The Mx Group

MAY 5, 2017

At the Marketo Marketing Nation Summit! The event was full of great insights, but as a marketing automation specialist, I was most interested in the keynote by Marketo CEO Steve Lucas. He explained how marketers can use marketing automation to win in the engagement economy. Where was I, you ask? Yes, I really met Fabio.

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Launch Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Before marketing automation, companies tracked data in various places. One way to navigate these obstacles is by using marketing automation tools. What is marketing automation? What is marketing automation? Getting Down to the Basics: What is Marketing Automation? The benefits of marketing automation are plentiful.

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Customer Experience Matrix

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

There were two bits of news from Marketing Automation Land yesterday: Marketo announced it has filed a draft registration statement for an initial public offering, and Eloqua CEO Joe Payne was quoted as saying his company plans to expand into business-to-consumer marketing. The Marketo news is long-expected.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

Automation is making waves in the business world as more and more companies are moving towards digital transformation. Furthermore, the greatest benefits that business leaders expect to see from digital adoption include saving time and money by automating tasks and reducing the need for human involvement.

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Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

Your legal team should review existing contracts to see if it has any “in the case of being purchased” clauses. I’ve heard that Marketo was rather chill about the size of lead databases, but after Adobe purchased it, Marketo database sizes defined in contracts were enforced far more strictly.”

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SmarkLabs

JUNE 12, 2023

In the fast-paced digital world, running a business without automation is like trying to paddle a boat against the current. Marketing tasks are increasingly complex, and the need for B2B marketing automation is more critical than ever. What is B2B Marketing Automation? Why B2B Marketing Automation?

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Engagio

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Historically, marketing automation platforms took the lead, but with the rise of sales engagement solutions, SDRs have started to play a pivotal role. In my time at Marketo I found that I could generate 50% more qualified sales leads at 33% lower cost by nurturing my not-yet-ready-to-buy prospects. So, which approach is more effective?

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InsightSquared

APRIL 12, 2018

Marketers look to their marketing automation platforms (MAPs) not only to execute many of their demand generation activities, but also to understand the effectiveness of their marketing programs. Proving that a particular activity caused the buyer to make a decision to purchase is hard to do. To read the full report click here.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 31, 2015

Yesterday I released the mid-year edition of the VEST Report on B2B marketing automation vendors, thereby meeting my self-imposed deadline of July 31. Look here for more information or to make a purchase. The only major changes captured in the new report are the custom table abilities added by Marketo and Ontraport. -

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SendinBlue

AUGUST 24, 2020

Marketing automation platforms offer tools that help grow your business and improve customer experience. This list details some of the best marketing automation software around to help you decide which one is right for you. This is where a marketing automation platform can help. Let’s talk about marketing for a minute.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

Inherently tech-based, a plethora of marketing automation solutions has made ABM more measurable and affordable for businesses of all sizes. On the other hand, research from Marketo suggests that ABM delivers a better return on investment than various other strategies for an impressive 97% of marketers. Set Up Automation Workflows.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

As marketers, we are always looking for ways to automate, optimize, and make things simpler for ourselves so we are able to run more programs, produce more content, achieve higher ROI, and the list goes on. Overwhelmingly, most of this engagement can be achieved with a marketing automation platform.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The evolution of marketing automation has had a profound influence on marketers and buyers alike. From the days of spray-and-pray email marketing and complicated database marketing, the technology and expertise of marketers have truly elevated marketing automation as a practice. The Need for Experimentation and Testing.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The concept of engagement goes beyond automation because it implies that marketers are responsible for delivering a captivating experience, not just a series of ongoing communications. Applying this concept to B2B marketing is just as important as consumer marketing for major purchases. Deliver Engagement at Scale.

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6sense

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

At one point Friday morning, one of our CMO Coffee Talk regulars started a Beautiful Mind -esque soliloquy on what the “perfect” marketing automation platform would include – features, integrations, etc. Marketing automation is the orchestration of marketing, not just email. Control Tower is how I look at it.

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Customer Experience Matrix

AUGUST 3, 2010

Summary: Marketo continues to follow its own path. I finally caught up with Marketo for a briefing on their Enterprise Edition (announced in March) and Revenue Cycle Analytics (announced in May). Since both are somewhat old news, and Marketo describes them in detail on its Web site, I’ll just make a few comments.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 18, 2012

With its usual fanfare, Marketo today announced the acquisition of social marketing campaign company Crowd Factory. Crowd Factory is a certified cool product, which is probably reason enough for Marketo to buy them. Marketo is primarily focused on business marketing, and in particular lead generation, nurturing and analytics.

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Hubspot

MARCH 27, 2020

Having the best of both worlds is the feeling you have when your company's marketing automation software and CRM work in tandem. In fact, marketing automation software can increase sales productivity by 14.5%. Below, we'll review what marketing automation and CRM software do and why they need to be integrated.

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chiefmartech

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The deal was announced yesterday afternoon: Adobe is acquiring Marketo for $4.75 As TechCrunch noted in their coverage of the news, “[This acquisition] was a pretty nice return for Vista Equity partners, which purchased Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 It’s just that your Marketo choice will now have an Adobe logo.

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Customer Experience Matrix

APRIL 9, 2014

x revenue, compared with the 6 to 7 x multiples paid for ExactTarget and Responsys by Salesforce.com and Oracle and the 14 x that Marketo commands in the stock market. But the main reason is probably that just 15% of Vocus'' 2013 revenue came from its marketing automation products. It’s still a modest multiple of 2.4

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Segmenting and automating your email marketing is essential if you want to attain new customers and maintain existing ones. There are endless ways to target your email marketing automation. Here are 11 of the most effective automated emails you need to start using so you can utilize your contacts to their fullest potential.

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Valasys

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Adobe will be acquiring privately-held cloud marketing software group Marketo from Vista Equity Partners for a whopping $4.75bn (£3.6bn)! The common and unwavering belief in the power of content and data to drive business results has brought these two magnets together according to Steve Lucas the CEO of Marketo.

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Golden Spiral

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Marketing automation is a software and a process that enables companies to automate marketing tasks and messages to improve efficiencies and grow revenue more quickly. Nucleus Research reports marketing automation drives a 12.2% reduction in marketing overhead. Sounds great, right? More revenue. Less overhead. Set a Goal.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Author: Anastasia Pavlova Whether you’re a small to medium-sized business or a larger enterprise organization, marketing automation is your company’s best bet for staying competitive in this digital age. 53% of the B2B organizations and 43% of B2C and combination B2B/B2C organizations have adopted marketing automation systems.–

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